Festival / English Spoken

26-05 t/m 27-05

Gerben Vaillant en Fleur van den Berg

on smoke and airconditioning

Maybe that’s the thing about character A and character B: they don’t have a lot to say. I met character A by accident at a party—quite a boring guy. For B, it’s different. A couple of deep breaths, and he was there—restless and alive. Now they’re here, keeping me awake at night with all their details. I keep wondering where they are going. And where they got their sense of life.

on smoke and airconditioning is a shaky story—a fiction that comes to life trembling and then dies again. A story told by narrators who can’t let go of their characters-without-a-purpose. It’s a performance that dances with the urgency of creating fiction. A performance that values vivid details so much that the makers can’t be bothered to question their role in the narrative. But mostly, on smoke and airconditioning is a study on a sense of life.